Mark Stansfield

Business parks have been largely unpopular with investors in recent years amid high vacancy rates and weak occupier demand. However, plummeting values have piqued interest, with Stockley Park in west ...

The UK economy unexpectedly failed to grow at the start of the year, providing no momentum even before an escalating Middle Eastern war that threatens to push up inflation and derail the global ...

Rapid repricing led to a surge in investor interest in Greater London industrial property 18 months ago, but activity has since fallen away. Investment volumes fell below £1 billion for the first ...

Industrial occupier market conditions continue to weaken across Greater London, with vacancies rising to a 15-year high and rent growth slowing, but there are reasons to be positive in some parts of ...

Surrey is not an industrial market geared to national distribution, given its expensive land values and rents, its location south of London and its abundance of golf courses, but it nonetheless ...

London offices were the clear winners from a pricing perspective in 2025, with rising investor demand driving down yields, but price falls in other market segments might increasingly lure capital ...

The nights may be cold, and the days may be short, but occupiers and investors are increasingly warming up and going long on London offices, helping to boost the market mood for the winter months and ...

The UK economy underperformed expectations to record its joint-weakest growth rate in two years in the final quarter of 2025, amid falling construction output and zero growth in the UK’s dominant ...

Office vacancies in London’s Western Fringe, where employees rub shoulders with the wealthy residents of Kensington, Chelsea and Notting Hill, are falling amid rising demand for space beyond the West ...

More than 200 leading industry figures braved the rain last week to attend the first of a series of roadshow events to shine a light on the key trends unfolding in a recovering but still-challenged ...

The UK economy outperformed expectations to expand at its strongest pace in five months in November, driven by car production and services, which raised hopes that some economic momentum will carry ...

To office market participants and observers, 2025 marked the year when the recovery finally began. Following four-and-a-half years of heavy demand losses totalling 48 million square feet across the ...

The much-discussed flight-to-quality trend has finally eased after net absorption turned positive for non-prime UK offices, defined as offices rated 4 stars or below by CoStar’s rating system. ...

CoStar last week hosted the webinar “Hindsight is 2025: Year in Review for UK Commercial Property”, where senior director of market analytics, Mark Stansfield, shared exclusive insights into the ...

Construction activity continues to decline across all commercial property sectors, with the amount of space underway nationally dropping to its lowest level since 2014. An interesting dichotomy is ...

As 2025 draws to a close, join CoStar’s Senior Director of Market Analytics, Mark Stansfield, for an exclusive, data-rich review of the UK commercial property market. This webinar will unpack the key ...

Following similar events in other key UK markets, CoStar this week held a Thames Valley offices round table with leading figures in the market as part of a series of discussions aimed at gaining a ...

Demand for retail space in the west London borough of Hammersmith and Fulham is rising, with several positive indicators pointing towards ongoing demand moving forward.

Knightsbridge’s office vacancy rate has stabilised at a relatively low level amid steady demand for space and ongoing weak development in the wealthy and exclusive district.

The UK economy underperformed expectations in the third quarter of 2025, growing at its slowest pace in nearly two years, forming a weak backdrop to a vitally important Budget on 26 November.